About Michaela
Michaela Levas is a PACFA counsellor who focuses on helping people untangle stress and anxiety. She uses a direct, compassionate style to help people find clarity and make practical changes. Her work aims to turn insight into everyday steps that feel manageable.
She brings four years of clinical experience and a trauma-informed outlook to sessions. Michaela blends psychotherapy, clinical hypnosis, ego state techniques and narrative approaches to help people notice repeating patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions often involve naming those patterns and practising different ways of responding in real life. Michaela places emphasis on understanding parts of the self that feel stuck or disconnected. She helps people meet those parts with curiosity instead of judgement.
That process can reduce shame, ease impulsivity and calm racing thoughts linked to anxiety. Her background includes work with relationship difficulties, issues around attachment and family of origin themes. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, codependency and communication difficulties.
Practical goals might include clearer boundaries, steadier self-esteem and better coping with life changes. People can expect a grounded and intuitive approach that links feeling states to everyday choices. Michaela aims to help clients reclaim their voice and take ownership of their story.
She encourages small, sustainable steps that build confidence over time.
Approaches that help online and how they work
Many of Michaela's techniques focus on noticing patterns and changing how those patterns show up day to day. Narrative approaches involve telling and reshaping the story you tell about yourself, which can reduce shame and clarify values. Clinical hypnosis is used to access calmer states and rehearse new responses to anxiety or stress in a focused way. Ego state methods help identify different parts of a person and work on integrating them so behaviour feels less conflicted and impulsive.Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what feels most useful. That collaborative process helps people decide whether to emphasise story-based work, state-based practice, or a mix of techniques.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face connection and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit people who prefer writing or need to fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it simpler to keep progress going from wherever a person is located in Australia.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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